I’m back, with many a photo and note on what I went to at the Develop conference this year. Helping out was good, with better start times and organisation this year. I’ll post up all I can over the next few days, there was some really interesting things that are worth noting. My notes won’t [...]
I’ll be at the Brighton Develop Conference for the second time volunteering all next week. If I have the internet, I might make nightly posts, but probably my hotel won’t have wifi or more likely I won’t have time. There’s a lot more going on this year out of hours, so I really hope I’ll [...]
Stupid illness has me by the nose, so a radio show is out of the question. I hope to be back next week - last time before exams, and a bank holiday! (Yay for holidays! It’ll be even more fun when I have work on those days ).
This week I’ll be mostly going to [...]
Okay, GDC is over, final notes from me about everything (including what I previously posted), what went right, wrong and what I would need to prepare for better
Me looking more moody then I felt, honest (Dave Mark’s picture)
The final AI roundtable on Friday was AI for Beginners - we were in one room again, but it wasn’t as crowded. Some varied questions asked (not all of them for beginners, but a lot was explained for those that were). Dave Mark put [...]
The left of me
So day 2 of the AI roundtables was a lot easier, although for some reason I didn’t use my laptop to take notes, sigh. This day, we did split into two rooms - I covered the “Action / FPS genre” side, while Dave Mark covered the “RTS / RPG” side. It’s tough [...]
Right side of the room
This Wednesday roundtable was meant to be in two rooms, sadly, we got only one. However, a lot of discussion was had, and I got 3 pages of notes from it. These notes are somewhat hard to follow, but are pretty much in linear order of what came up. For some [...]
I made a video of this years Game Developers Rant on my camera, and have finally uploaded it now - it’s certainly got some more visual elements you won’t get from a writeup!
Eager crowd…
So I made lots of notes on the Building a Better Battle: HALO 3 AI Objectives talk by Damian Isla, and I finally wrote them up! You can find his slides on this page (direct link), and if you don’t have Office 2007, I made a quick printout to PDF from the 2007 viewer, [...]
These are my notes from Streaming Open World Pathfinding, Quinn Dunki. Very interesting, and some unique ways to cut down the processing time to make it fast and cheap. Find the slides on her site.